Starship finally got its much-awaited launch license, on track for its upcoming orbital flight. SpaceX received its much-awaited final piece of the puzzle that will help expand its spaceflight program, and this is the "Commercial Space Transportation License" that it needs to fly the Starship.
All fuels have been replenished and is ready for the next stage of tests. SpaceX gave updates to the world about its Starship program, and it recently finished its fuel tests where it loaded its needed propellant for the upcoming static fire engine assessment.
of which i watched in real time, it s heartbreaking, i still feel for those families. can i ask you about your time as a astronaut, and what that is like, and how long do you think, firstly, it will be before man returns to the moon? sure. we re always aware of the risks. we re very well-trained, we know the hardware, we ve met the people who worked on it. we also recognize that, you know, there are parts of the flight profile where there s nothing you can do if something goes wrong, where certain things go wrong. so we put that to rest in our own minds about accepting the risk because to us it s worth doing, the risk is worth the reward. as far as getting back to the moon, my hope is sooner rather than later. you mentioned a little bit earlier in your story about the space race. i actually don t see the space race being with china per se, but as you mentioned, more with the commercial efforts like spacex, for example. spacex is making great strides in their starship program.
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